Lady&#39;s undergarment



Nov. 15, 1927.

M. M. MARQUIS LADY S UNDERGARMENT Filed June 23. 1926 wwjmw INVENTORTTORNEY l Patented Nov. 19 27.

UNITED STAT MARCELLE M. MARQUIS, 01' NEW YORK, N.

A CORPORATION Y., ASSIGNOB '10 GAMLIN consn'r co. me, or new you.

LADYS UNDERGABMENT.

Application filed June 23,

This invention relates to improvements in undergarments and hasparticular reference to improvements in ladies undergarments known ascombined brassieres and corset or corselettes.

The object of the invention is to provide a novel, useful and generallyimproved garment of this character, including novel features forproviding abdominal supporting means and an especially well fittedgarment including a brassiere portion.

With these objects in view the invention is embodied in a ladysundergarment arranged and constructed as hereinafter set forth and asillustrated in the accompanying drawing in which Fig. 1 is a view of theoutside of the garment opened up flat.

Fig. 2 is a perspectiveview of the garment partially closed.

Fig. 3 is a view of the garment fully closed.

Fig. 4 is a detail view illustrating the closing means or specialarrangement. of the hooks and eyes.

Referring to the drawing, .the garment comprises a back corset portion 5of corset material, usually brocaded silk or the like, and provided withboning or corset 'bones 6, 6 below the waist line 7.

To each side of the back portion there is attached a side portionnumbered respec-' tively 8 and 9. The left side portion 8 consists of anupper brassiere portion 10 prefto which. is secured a lower left hipportion 11 of elastic material.

As more particularly seen in Figure 4, the left side portion 8 isprovided with a tape 12' extending the length of the garment, and tothis ta e are sewed eyelets 13. In, addition, the eft side portion isprovided with a stiffening insert 14. g

The upper part of the insert 14 is provided with a tape 15 providedwitheyelets 16 which are spaced and placed to correspond with such ofthe eyelets 13 as are laced in similar vertical spaced position on thetape 12. The arrangement is such, that when the garment is closed, theeyelets 16 form a continuation in spacing and position of the lowereyelets 13., This is clearly seen in Figure 1.

The right side portion 9 is symmetrical erably made of knitted silk orlike fabric, p

with the left sideportion 8 and consists 1926. Serial No. 117,949.

also of a lower elastic portion 18 and an upper brassiere portion 19 ofknitted fabric hooks 25 which are hooked into the eyelets 13, seeFigures 2'and 4 to close the upper part of the garment.

-the garment is closed. To this end, there- \fore, the front portion 21is provided with In addition, a front corset portion 26 of usual corsetmaterial is attached to the edge 20 and extends from the waistline downto the bottom edge of the garment. The front corset portion 26 isprovided with an elastic insert 27 and light bonin 28. It is providedwith hooks 29 whic hook into the eyelets 16 and the lower eyelets 13.Hence the reason for the accurate and identical spacing of the eyelets16 and 13.

When the portion 26 is closed as in Figure 3 it completes the garmentand securely lace keeps the abdominal support 23 in and flat. In fact,it provides a ,secon dominal supporting portion. I

It will be seen, therefore, that the garment according to this inventionprovides an upper brassiere portion and a lower corset Also that perfectalinement and good fit is assuredbecause of the one piece tape'12 towhich both edges of the inner and outer front portion are hooked. Theupper overinto the eyelets 16. In this manner a per-- fect fitvertically is obtained and a smoothly fitting corset is provided byreason of theelastic hip portions. The upper portions form a brasier'e,which fits comfortablyaround thebody.

I claim I 1. A ladys undergarment forming-a comportions secured togeter, eachlof said side portions consisting-of a lower elastic-hip ortionjand an upper brassiere portion, a ont brassiere portion of less lengththan the said three portions secured to the right ortion with specialabdominal supports lapping portion of the front 26 is hooked j edge ofthe right side portion and provided with boning in its lower partwhereby to form an abdominal support; hooks on the free edge of thefront brassiere portion adapted to engage eyes on the free edge of theleft side portion for closing the brassire of the garment, a frontcorset portion secured to the right edge of the said right side portionand overlapping in a vertical diof less length than the garment, acorsetfront portion of lesslength than the garment and overlapping'thelower part of the brassiere front, a first row of eyelets on the leftfree edge of the garment some of which first eyelets are adapted to beengaged by hooks on the free edge on the said brassiere front portion'toclose the same, a second additional row of eyelets secured adjacent thesaid left free edge of the garment, which second row of eyelets togetherwith the remaining unhookedfirst named eyelets are adapted to be engagedby hooks on the said corset front portion to close the same.

3'. A ladys undergarment forming an upper brassiere portionand a lowercorset portion, each of said portions including a separate front part,the said two front parts overlapping each other in a vertical direction,and each of said front parts having a free closing edge, hooks in thesaid two' closing edges, a tape extending the length of the garment atthe extreme left ed e thereof, a tape insert in said extreme 1e t.

edge'overlapping a portion of the said full length tape, eyelets in thelatter and in the sald tape insert, some of the eyelets in the r saidfull length tape being adapted to be engaged by all the hooks in theclosing edge of the brassiere portion, and the balance of said eyeletsin the full length tape together with the eyelets in the said tapeinsertbeing adapted to engage all of the hooks in the closing edge ofthe corset portion.

MARCELLE M. MARQUIS.

